\chapter*{Preface}


\section{Outline}
This report documents the library named geomagick, which has been started
in spring 2008 whithin the scope of this semester thesis. Whereas the main
part mostly reasons design decision, a HOWTO as well as a Reference generated
using Doxygen is provided within the appendix. 
The HOWTO is meant provide a practical introduction to using the library.
Since \emph{geomagick} is supposed to be \emph{user extensible}, the HOWTO
also deals with extending the library. 
